The favored farming sim and supreme cozy recreation, Stardew Valley, dropped a serious replace on Tuesday after months of anticipation. Stardew’s 1.6 replace has an insane quantity of latest content material that touches each space of the sport, from new menus and DIYs, to a brand new farm format, new crops, and the flexibility to have a number of pets and play with seven pals directly. It’s sufficient updates to make the sport really feel contemporary, however isn’t so new you could’t ease again right into a beloved farm and toil away.
It is necessary to notice right here that the free replace is at present solely accessible for PC gamers. The replace will come to cellular and consoles just like the Nintendo Swap afterward. In case you’re not a PC participant, the 1.6 information has not modified gameplay, and you’ll play usually when you look forward to it to point out up. If you do not have the sport but on PC, you should purchase it on Steam for $15, and it really works on PC, Linus, and Mac computer systems.
As quickly because the PC replace arrived, I opened up Stardew Valley and began a file with the brand-new farm format (which has me very broke) to dive proper in. The replace additionally works in your present Stardew recordsdata, and I’ve been bouncing backwards and forwards between my brand-new file and a later-game file to see what’s new in several seasons. In all places I look, I see one thing new. Moss to forage off bushes! New reactionary dialog from NPCs! A prize machine within the mayor’s home!
In case you hate spoilers, I’m truthfully undecided why you learn this far, however it’s best to positively cease studying. I’m about to let you know about among the largest adjustments I’ve noticed since enjoying the up to date recreation.
Ranch Mode
The largest change to see straight away is the brand new farm format. Stardew’s 1.6 replace provides the Meadowlands Farm, a grass- and animal-focused design for my fellow animal ranchers. This farm grows a particular blue grass that recreation creator Eric Barone says animals will love. It may possibly increase animal’s hearts quicker, enhancing the eggs and milk they provide you. There’s much less farming land accessible, and some adjustments to preliminary quests. I’m having fun with the Meadowlands Farm to this point—I instantly created one when the sport dropped–though beginning with two chickens and no parsnip seeds is unquestionably a slower path to the infinite wealth I am looking for. However though I am broke, it’s nonetheless been enjoyable to have such a distinct begin to the sport.
Recent Crops
The primary query my sister requested me once I began enjoying: “Are there new crops?” At first, I informed her no. I didn’t see something new to buy within the store. However there are new crops with the replace–you simply received’t discover them in any shops.
As an alternative, you discover 4 new crops (one for every season!) in a number of alternative ways—primarily, digging them up from the bottom within the recreation’s well-known Artifact Spots, though spots with these new crops have a barely totally different model you’ll be capable to spot. It’s also possible to win them within the brand-new Prize Machine within the mayor’s home, when you get your hand on a prize ticket. The brand new crops are carrots for spring, summer time squash for (shocker) summer time, broccoli for fall, and powdermelon in winter. These new crops can be utilized within the recreation’s foremost quest, too. Simply select Remixed Bundles for the Group Middle in your beginning settings.